Jaysh al-Nasr

Army of Victory
جيش النصر
Jaysh al-Nasr
Leaders
  • Major Muhammad Mansour[1]
    (commander-in-chief)
  • Major Engineer Hassan Sheikh Yusuf[2]
    (deputy commander-in-chief)
  • Major Zuhair Sheikh[2]
    (chief of staff)
  • Dr. Hassan Hamidi[2]
    (chief of political bureau)
  • Captain Mohannad Junaid[3]
  • Captain Tariq Jadou Executed[4]
  • First Lieutenant Alaa Rakhmon [5]
Dates of operationAugust 2015[6] – present
Group(s)

Left in February 2018:

  • 111th Regiment
  • Salvation Front
HeadquartersQalaat al-Madiq (until May 2019)[9]
Active regionsNorthwestern Syria
Size5,000[10]
Part ofNational Front for Liberation (since May 2018)[11]
Fatah Halab (2015–16)[12]
North Hama Countryside Operations Room[13]
Allies
Opponents
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Websitehttps://twitter.com/alnasararmy

The Army of Victory (Arabic: جيش النصر; Jaysh al-Nasr) is an armed opposition faction participating in the Syrian Civil War. Founded in August 2015 as a joint operations room of 16 member groups,[6] three of the groups later fully merged into Jaysh al-Nasr. The group was supplied with US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.[10]

  1. ^ Nicholas A. Heras (2 March 2017). "Commanding the Jaysh al-Nasr Coalition: A Review of the Ascendancy of Major Muhammad Mansour". Jamestown Foundation.
  2. ^ a b c "New leaders of the "Victory Army" in northern Syria". Ana Press. 17 February 2018.
  3. ^ "'Al-Qaeda is eating us': Syrian rebels are losing out to extremists". The Washington Post. 23 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Al-Aqsa Brigade fighters executed 197 Free Army in Hama and retreat to tenderness". Akhbar Alaan. 23 February 2017.
  5. ^ Abdul Razzaq al-Sabeeh (22 May 2017). "The assassination of one of the most skilled TOW shooters in the Army of Victory". All4Syria.
  6. ^ a b Al-Souria (5 August 2015). "Idleb, Hama Rebels Unite Under 'Army of Victory' Operations Room". The Syrian Observer. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ^ Terrormonitor.org [@Terror_Monitor] (6 January 2017). "#SYRIA #FSA-Affiliate Uwais al-Qarni Battalion Merged With #JayshAlNasr In #Hama Countryside. #TerrorMonitor" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Twitter message Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine[user-generated source]
  9. ^ "Syrian government captures strategic town from rebels-residents, war monitor". Reuters. 9 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b "THE MODERATE REBELS: A GROWING LIST OF VETTED GROUPS FIELDING BGM-71 TOW ANTI-TANK GUIDED MISSILES". Hasan Mustafas. 5 August 2015.
  11. ^ "11 FSA Factions in New Command in of "National Front Liberation"". Syria Call. 28 May 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  12. ^ جيش النصر (5 May 2016). "جيش النصر -- استهداف معاقل قوات النظام بقذائف الدبابات في جمعية الزهراء بمدينة حلب" – via YouTube.
  13. ^ "Official statement listing groups involved in the 'North Hama Countryside Operations Room' - Jaish al-Nasr, Jaish al-Izza, Faylaq al-Sham, Abna al-Sham, Liwa Omar • /r/syriancivilwar". 5 November 2016.
  14. ^ a b c "In Idlib: "Free Army" Factions Receive Turkish Conditional Funding". Enab Baladi. 17 February 2018.